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Coding, AI and Pie: Technovation Girls Workshop at MIT
March 14, 2026 — This year we celebrated the Pi Day (3/14) by hosting 20 middle- and high-school students from the greater Boston area participating in the Technovation Challenge 2026.
MIT FutureMakers Workshop Empowers High School Students in Rural Kentucky with Hands-On AI and a Glimpse toward Agricultural Innovation
This past August, high school students from the Floyd County School of Innovation (FCSI) participated in a groundbreaking five-day workshop at the University of Pikeville in eastern Kentucky.
My Coding Journey at the Navajo Nation @ Chinle, AZ
Thanks to a Google grant I had the fortune to travel to Chinle, Arizona in May 2025 and help start a new CS course called "Introduction to Mobile Computing & Artificial Intelligence" at the Chinle High School.
Updates to the Chatbot default model
Data Anywhere! Students Test Out App Inventor's Mobile Data Science Toolkit
Over the last year, students have been telling unique data science stories with apps that go anywhere — the garden, ocean, water fountain, and even refrigerator. It's all part of the award-winning Mobile Data Science Toolkit in App Inventor.
App Inventor Goes to FOSDEM
Last week, I travelled to Brussels to attend the 25th Free and Open Source Developers European Meetup (FOSDEM). I also had the opportunity to go to Paris and promote the use of App Inventor in France. Click below to read more about my trip.
App Inventor Development 2024 Year in Review
Hello everyone and welcome to our 2024 Year in Review for App Inventor development.
First, let’s highlight our amazing user base (click here to read about some of the awesome projects they built in this year’s Global AI Hackathon). We saw significant growth in users and projects year over...
Generative AI in the C-Suite with MIT App Inventor
Over the past year and a half, the MIT App Inventor team has collaborated on multiple workshops with MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Paul McDonagh-Smith attended by C-suite executives, vice presidents, and MBAs. Click below to read more.
A New User Interface for MIT App Inventor
Blockly Summit 2024 Recap
Last week I went to Mountain View, CA to visit our friends on the Google Blockly team and to speak about the work we have been doing at App Inventor on generative AI, both in how block environments can invoke generative AI models as well as using generative AI models to code with blocks. Click the link to learn more about the event.
MIT App Inventor Inspires Girls with AI and Data Science at Technovation Challenge Workshop
On March 16, 2024, after a prolonged hiatus due to the pandemic, the MIT App Inventor team had the delightful opportunity to host 24 girls participating in the Technovation Challenge 2024.
Celebrating 100 Million Projects
In February 2024, the MIT App Inventor server reached the milestone of hosting 100,000,000 projects! 🎉🎉 This milestone is a testament to the far-reaching impact of the platform, which has been translated into 20 different languages and is used in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Click 'More' to learn about App Inventor's reach.
Boston Public School Students Consider AI and Data Science
Working on thorny, real-world problems such as climate change requires data to better understand them. High schoolers from Boston Public Schools explored climate data using AI and data science during a three-day workshop at MIT’s Stata Center.
App Inventor at FOSDEM 2024
I recently had the pleasure of attending FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels, Belgium last week. FOSDEM is a gathering of people contributing to free and open source software hosted at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). While primaily focused on Europe it draws people from around the world. This year, Peter Mathijssen, an App Inventor Power User, and Bart Mathijssen, a contributor to App Inventor on GitHub, helped organize two tracks: FOSS Education Software Devroom and FOSDEM Junior.
MIT App Inventor at Maine State Prison
Mind, Hand, and Heart: MIT at Its Very Best.
During Spring 2023, App Inventor team offered the Introduction of Mobile Computing and Artificial Intelligence course at Maine State Prison. The project was supported by a grant from the MIT Office of Experiential Learning and a cohort of 18 residents earned their certificates of completion.
2023 Development Year in Review
Hello everyone,
As we close out the year 2023, I would like to take a moment to celebrate the efforts of everyone in the App Inventor development community.
In this past year, we have open sourced our iOS implementation and made it available for the world. We also performed significant...
The App Inventor Summer Camp I Wished I Had as a Child
The summer camp at St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong was all about coding, innovation, sustainability and a dash of friendly competition. The theme was to promote and improve double-decker trams, the greenest public transport in Hong Kong.
An Overview of the App Inventor Sources -- Components
An Overview of the App Inventor Sources
This post is the first in a series of articles on the layout and structuring of the App Inventor sources, which are available on GitHub under the Apache Software License 2.0. Each week an article will cover a different part of the system.
The App Inventor sources are broken...
Open Sourcing of MIT App Inventor for iOS
The App Inventor development team announces that the MIT App Inventor for iOS companion app is now open source and available on GitHub.
MIT App Inventor at Valencia!
Angie Zhou went to sunny Valencia to present App Inventor’s image classification work to researchers and educators at the International Technology, Education, and Development Conference (INTED)
MIT App Inventor Impact
MIT App Inventor Impact 2019-2022
Since its release in 2012, MIT App Inventor led by Prof. Hal Abelson has emerged as one of MIT's most widely used contributions to K-12 educational technology. It is part of the MIT-wide initiative Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE).
HTTPS Support for App Inventor
HTTPS Support for App Inventor
In the coming weeks, we will be rolling out HTTPS support for MIT App Inventor. This is an important update to improve the security of the many app inventors around the world, but it requires that people are running the latest software.
How will...
2022 Appathon for Good Inspires New Technologies
Appathon 2022 winner Cindy Xiao and other winners submitted apps that varied widely in the ingenious ways they solved real-world problems — from accessing public databases in real time to using artificial intelligence to count items captured by a camera phone.
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node Hosts Blended Learning Training Course on App Inventor
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node is hosting a series of teacher-training courses on App Inventor and computational thinking, training 200 teachers in Hong Kong.
Companion Version 2.64 in Beta Test
Release nb189 Coming Soon
Why is There No https in MIT App Inventor
App Inventor Collaborator CoolThink@JC Wins International Recognition Including Silver and Bronze Awards at the "Oscars" of Education
Congratulations to CoolThink@JC project, for winning international recognition again. The project received the Silver and Bronze awards at the QS Reimagine Education Awards and Education Alliance Finland certification.
Introducing Aptly that Turns Ideas into Working Apps
Speak Your Mind: Introducing Aptly, the Software Platform that Turns Ideas into Working Apps
What if you could create apps simply by describing what you want in everyday language? How might you use that power to improve life for your family, your community, the world? What would you build?
Announcing Become An App Inventor
The MIT App Inventor team is delighted to announce the publication of Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from MIT App Inventor, by Karen Lang and Selim Tezel.
(Release date February 8, 2022)
Computer Room Shutdown at MIT
App Inventor Collaborator CoolThink@JC Awarded ISTE Seal of Alignment
MIT App Inventor collaborator CoolThink@JC, a Computational Thinking Education Programme targetting primary school students, receives the ISTE Seal of Alignment!
Chromium 94 Issues
Chromium 94, the core browser functionality for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, among others, recently introduced a new feature to protect local network devices from malicious websites. This change unfortunately affects many App Inventor users. If you use Chrome or Edge and you live test your App Inventor project using...
Appathon 2021 Winners Take Aim at Mental Health, Traffic, Zombies, and More
Over a thousand coders built phone and tablet apps to fix problems in their lives and communities. Submissions reflected all the problems and anxieties of 2021, and a few are ready to be adopted right away to address these problems.
Robert Parks to join MIT App Inventor
Please accompany me in welcoming Robert Parks to the MIT App Inventor education team.
Robert is a curriculum developer, author, designer and teacher with keen understanding of student empowerment in STEM. His 2005 publication Makers was the first book on the maker movement. He’s served as senior editor for Wired...
2021 CoolThink Teacher Commendation Day
The CoolThink@JC computational thinking education initiative on May 26 hosted a commendation ceremony recognizing the hard work and contribution from 10 schools and 11 teachers in Hong Kong.
Welcome Anqi Zhou to MIT App Inventor!
On behalf of MIT App Inventor, I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Anqi (Angie) Zhou as the newest member of the MIT team. Angie comes to MIT as founder and CEO of Dreams Come True in Shenzhen, where she developed online coding courses for kids. She also has previous curriculum development,...
MIT App Inventor for iOS on the App Store
2020 Year in Review - App Inventor Development
This year we had a total of 199 commits to the App Inventor open source repository, which included 88 commits from 27 contributors external to MIT. We performed thirteen releases this year including seven companion updates. This is two more contributors than last year. Welcome to everyone new this year...
A Look at Component Usage in MIT App Inventor
We recently analyzed App Inventor projects present in the system as of September 2019. The snapshot we used contained 42,734,420 projects (as of 2020-11-03, we now have over 54 million projects in App Inventor). This analysis focused on components to help us better understand where most effort is put into...
Changes in the new MIT App Inventor Gallery
The New Gallery Goes Live This Weekend
During the weekend there will be a brief period where the Gallery will be unavailable while its projects are moved to the new Gallery.
A New Gallery is coming to MIT App Inventor
MIT App Inventor Partners with Black Girls Code to Encourage Young Girls to Change the World in a Hackathon
File Path Updates Starting with Android 10
MIT App Inventor Story Festival
MIT App Inventor wants to hear your story! What fun, interesting, informative ways have you used App Inventor? Share with our community!
YR Media publishes In the Black Mirror
In the Black Mirror: What Artificial Intelligence Means for Race, Art and the Apocalypse is a dynamic set of interviews between young people from YR Media’s youth-led newsroom and some of the biggest minds in A.I.
FOSDEM 2020 Trip Report
The following is a guest post from MIT App Inventor Power User Peter Mathijssen.
A little report of our visit to FOSDEM 2020 in Brussel, Belgium.
FOSDEM was held in the weekend of Feb 1 and 2.
Vishwas arrived...
MIT App Inventor Coronavirus App Challenge
An unprecedented opportunity for Computational Action
We invite our fantastically creative MIT App Inventor community from all ages to put their ingenuity to good use and create socially conscious mobile apps that will help defeat the spread of the disease, aid our local communities and give strength to our fellow world citizens in these difficult times.
MIT App Inventor in Brazil
Over January 2020, MIT App Inventor, partnered with C6 Bank, sent a group of six students over to the city of São Paulo to teach App Inventor. Our group consisted of students Murielle Dunand, Diego Escobedo, Tommy Heng, Victor Horta, Talia Pelts, and Viktoriya Tabunshchyk.
MIT App Inventor at Kentucky Middle School
...a stellar MIT App Inventor workshop via videoconference to a class of eager eighth graders in Appalachian Kentucky. The middle schoolers had a great opportunity to learn how to create their first mobile app and pose questions to our MIT students about their experiences at MIT.
Labinsane App Optimizes Experimental Animal Care
A project conducted by graduate student Carlos Poblete at the Obesity and Comorbidities Research Center in Brazil led to development of the Labinsane app that optimizes anesthesia and analgesia during experimental animal interventions.
Lyra Blizzard Logan Publishes App Inventor Book
MIT Master Trainer Lyra Blizzard Logan has just published a new book, entitled Learn to Program with App Inventor.
Black Girls Code visits MIT App Inventor
On Saturday October 5th 2019, MIT App Inventor team had the great pleasure of hosting the Boston branch of Black Girls Code at MIT CSAIL. 24 bright-eyed young women beaming with enthusiasm, arrived at the Stata Center eager for an early morning of playful discovery and intense technology immersion.
Empowering the Asian Community with Block Programming Tools
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Queena Ling
In a fast-paced city like Hong Kong, every moment is a competition. This is especially true for people in Hong Kong; many of them have a fully packed schedule of activities -...
Google Blockly Summit 2019 Recap
Last week I attended the Google Blockly Summit 2019. For those of you who might not know what Blockly is, it is the JavaScript library that powers MIT App Inventor’s blocks editor (also Scratch, Microsoft MakeCode, Code.org and many more). The summit was a two day event at Google’s Mountain...
App Inventor finally came to Tokyo!! First App Inventor workshop for educators in Tokyo
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Masao Ishihara.
On September 4th, the first MIT App Inventor workshop for educators was held at STEMON head learning studio in Ogikubo, Tokyo. The workshop was planned and run by Masao Ishihara, the first...
MIT App Inventor Reaches 10 Million Users, and Other Milestones
This year is a year of milestones for MIT App Inventor.
Back in August, we celebrated 10 years of App Inventor at the MIT App Inventor Summit. Over the weekend, MIT App Inventor saw its 10 millionth app inventor start a project. It’s great to see that over 10 million...
MIT App Inventor for iOS version 0.9 takes off in TestFlight
The MIT App Inventor team is pleased to announce version 0.9 of the MIT App Inventor companion for iOS. This is part of our continuting cooperation with Apple to let people create apps for iOS devices in addition to Android devices.
One design goal of MIT’s iOS effort is that...
27 New MIT Master Trainers Become Certified
On July 29-31, twenty-seven educators from 7 different countries attended the MIT Master Trainers in Educational Mobile Computing workshop in their final step to becoming certified as a Master Trainer.
To become certified, the Master Trainers had...
MIT App Inventor Middle School Curriculum Introduced at NMSI K-12 CS Pathways Summer Institute in Dallas, TX
Between July 22-26, 2019 MIT App Inventor collaborated with NMSI (National Math and Science Initiative) and held a five-day workshop for 24 teachers, STEM coaches, curriculum developers from all over the nation.
JUVENTUD APK: From consumers to inventors in Cuba
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Jose Luis Nez
One of the most important goals of MIT App Inventor is that anyone can create apps that impact the world. In this sense, UNESCO is working throught YouthMobile initiative...
Tackling Trash with App Inventor at TechBoston Academy
On April 22, 2019, over 85 students from TechBoston Academy presented their STEAM projects at MITs Stata Center...
Hacking School System with App Inventor at Preface
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Anna Yu
Combining Coding and Psychology to Create Societal Impact
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Queena Ling
Like many budding psychology students, Suki has a strong desire to aid those with special needs or suffering from mental health problems. Unlike her fellow psychology students however, Suki has taken...
Starting Coding from a Young Age
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Anna Yu.
The first Preface Hackathon of 2019 started off with a bang, as Preface coders aged 9-12 aimed to build on their past year of creating impactful applications for the community. The past...
MIT App Inventor for iOS Enters Beta Testing
The MIT App Inventor team is delighted to announce that weve passed a major milestone on the way to providing App Inventor for iOS.
Apple accepted MIT App Inventor for iOS into the TestFlight beta testing program this week. This lets us begin beta testing with small groups of users....
Trip Report: Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2019
I recently traveled to Brussels, Belgium for the CPDP 2019 conference. Privacy and data protection are important for MIT App Inventor, not only because we support educational outreach around the world, but because we want to ensure that people who build apps with MIT App Inventor can be...
New Release (nb175) Planned for Thursday, February 7th.
We plan to release a new version of MIT App Inventor on Thursday. This version, nb175, will include a new Companion (version 2.51). The current companion (version 2.50) will continue to work, but you will require the new version to use the new functionality described below...
Change to Googles policy for the Play Store may require changes to App Inventor apps
Google recently released a new Play Store policy that will affect some App Inventor apps. All apps that use the Texting or PhoneCall component AND are published in the Play Store must be rebuilt. The MIT App Inventor team is making a change to PhoneCall and Texting to help our...
African Union CIEFFA Stem Ambassadors Get Introduced to MIT App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Evbi O"Sullivan
African Union International Centre for Girls and Women Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) is the arm of the African Union entrusted with promoting girls and womens education across Africa. In November 2018, fifty-five...
Joy of Coding
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Ming Wu
HK Children built Burger Ordering App for local restaurant
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Tommie Lo.
Its 11:30 in the morning, 45 minutes away to your lunch break. Having been in a rush and skipped breakfast, you are suffering from the complaint of your rumbling stomach. Here, you...
MIT App Inventor for iOS Status Update
We know many App Inventor users are looking forward to the iOS version of MIT App Inventor. We've been working diligently on a release, and we hope to make the iOS version publicly available in the first quarter of 2019. One feature of the release that will be especially interesting...
Changing the Asian Community one App at a time - Preface Hackathon
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Queena Ling.
Coding education has always been viewed with utmost importance in USA and UK, and has also been an integral component of school curricula in Japan and China. Yet, many parents in...
David Tseng presents at Maker Faires
This is a guest blog by CSAIL Visiting Scientist and MIT Master Trainer David Tseng
Florida Gulf Coast University and University of South Florida Summer Camp Students Learn App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Lyra Logan
Welcome 41 New MIT Master Trainers in Educational Mobile Computing
On July 30 - August 1, 2018, 41 educators and entrepreneurs participated in part 3 of the MIT Master Trainers in Educational Mobile Computing program, a three day in-person workshop at MIT. In the workshop, participants learned more about the inner workings of MIT...
SmartCity linked App development at E2C
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Pierre Huguet and Marie-Caroline Gries
Ecole de la deuxime chance is a public network of...
#GirlsMakeTech Hong Kong in support of Technovation 2018!
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Ringo Lee
Many thanks to Brian Tang for the invitation to #GirlsMakeTech Hong Kong in support of Technovation 2018!
After a day long #GirlsMakeTech Workshop@WeWork and 2 days of...
Smarthuerto, a Smart Decision
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Jose Luis Nez
With this slogan, a mixture of English and Spanish, six students from IES Isbilya from Seville (Spain), managed to win the first edition of the Grow-Lab contest of the...
App Inventor: Who do we train and from where do we teach ?
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainers Youmna Ovazza and Pierre Huguet.
App Inventor empowers normal people to build Apps that are...
The Connected Classroom
6 Award Winning Apps from AppJamming Summit 2018
Read about the AppJamming Summit 2018, held in Hong Kong, and hosted by First Code Academy.
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Michelle Sun.
Coding Hackathon With Business School Students in Paris, France
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainers Youmna Ovazza and Pierre Huguet.
The ISG (Institut Suprieur de Gestion) is a French business school offering MBA programs. Pierre and I had taught a group...
CoderDojo-coaches translate App Inventor to Dutch
This is a guest blog by Maarten Thimpont of CoderDojo Belgium
I made a little game on my tablet, explains Zinnia (10 years old) while firing up here tablet. If my picture appears on the screen, I should tab it as fast as...
Responsive Design: Drag a Canvas larger than screen size
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Emile Wong
App Inventor against Cyberbullying
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Jose Luis Nez
Two 16-year-old students from IES Isbilya, Seville(Spain), have developed a mobile application using MIT App Inventor to raise community awareness of the problem of cyberbullying.
The work, which is in the...
#GirlsMakeTech Hong Kong in support of Technovation 2018 Launch
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Ringo Lee
On January 26, 2018, MIT AppInventor Master Trainers, Ringo Lee and Emile Wong, joined the launch of #GirlsMakeTech Hong Kong in support of the Technovation 2018 launch held at Hong Kong University. The...
Miami Mobile App Lab Students Prepare to Develop Apps for First Non-profit Client
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Lyra Logan.
This fall, the Florida Education Fund (FEF) opened its first Mobile App Lab at William H. Turner Technical Arts High School in northwest Miami-Dade County, Florida. At the Mobile App Lab, FEF, through...
App Inventor Makes a Surprise Appearance at CES 2018
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Rich Interdonato
Each year I attend CES to see what the latest consumer electronics look like so I can share the observations with my students at the University of Utah. This year, I...
Teaching App Inventor in Hong Kong: Map Component
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Tony Lam
The CoolThink@JC Project is created and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and co-created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, and City University of...
App Inventor for iOS is in progress
New Component Release on December 27th
We are planning a Component Release of MIT App Inventor around December 27th. Component Releases require the installation of a new MIT AI2 Companion App in order to receive full functionality.
Watershed Protection Hackathon in Austin
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Suzan Dalgic.
Racing robots in Brazil with App Inventor!
Things we learned from teaching 25,000 kids how to code
This is a guest blog by Philipp Knodel of App Camps Germany
With our non-profit App Camps we provide teaching resources for teachers and schools to teach coding. Teaching resources means: short videos and tutorials. Our goal is...
Technovation workshop at Roxbury Innovation Center
UNESCO YOUTHMOBILE: My First Training Assignment as a MIT App Inventor Master Trainer
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Evbi O'Sullivan
Two New Tutorials on Using Javascript in App Inventor
MIT Master Trainer Rich Interdonato, Professor at the University of Utah, has written two tutorials that show readers how to utilize the WebViewer component to execute javascript code.
Teen-Code
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Youmna Ovazza
I am writing to you from Paris to introduce Teen-Code to the international App Inventor community!
Teen-Code started back a little less than a year ago in Paris, France and aims at...Building your own apps: App Summer Camp for Girls in Germany
This is a guest blog by Diana Knodel of App Camps Germany
In 2013 we came across MIT App Inventor and were fascinated immediately. It allows you the build your own apps without prior coding experience - and along the way you...
Upcoming Feature: Maps
18 New Master Trainers in Educational Mobile Computing
Congratulations to our newest MIT Master Trainers! Eighteen people, hailing from seven different countries, travelled to MIT to participate in our second annual three day capstone workshop July 31-Aug 2. To be part of the three day workshop, participants first completed an online MOOC,...
About our new MIT App Inventor logo
Why do we need a new logo? The MIT App Inventor team felt it was time to move away from our Android-specific green droid. When you use MIT App Inventor next you will see the new logo in the upper left hand corner of the...
MIT App Inventor Team nominated for Distinguished Leadership Award
August 10, 2017
We on the MIT App Inventor team are thrilled to announce that our team has been nominated to receive...
Students hack plastic pollution with MIT App Inventor apps
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Suzan Dalgic
Upcoming App Inventor Features
MIT Master Trainer at JASON National Conference 2017 at George Washington University
MIT App Inventor + Internet of Things Release
MIT App Inventor is excited to announce the release of a new expansion to App Inventor that will allow you to design, create, and interact with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things refers to interfaces between everyday objects and the Internet, opening up a universe of new...
The 2017 Google App Inventor Contest kicks off
This is a guest blog by Kathy Deng, Google China
In 2014, Google China launched the first nationwide App Inventor contest for students from high schools and middle...
CoderDojo, Community-based Programming Clubs for Young People
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Sjaak Bosman.
On April 29th MIT Master Trainer Sjaak Bosman has given a Show & Tell presentation and workshop to introduce...
New Release of MIT App Inventor Expected on Thursday
On Thursday evening (Eastern United States Time) we will be deploying a new release of MIT App Inventor (version nb156).
This is a non-component release, which means that there is no new version of the MIT AI2 Companion to download or update. The major change is a...
Welcome to our new Blocks Editor
Thank you for your interest in helping us test an upcoming major release of MIT App Inventor.
In this release we will be making a major update to the Blocks Editor. A list of changes/features is included below.
If you would like to help us...
App Inventor and Maker (2): Bluetooth Desk LED Light
This is the latest blog post from MIT Master Trainer Xiangqun (Juliet) Chen. Check out the first prize winning app in 2016 Guangdong Student Maker Contest!
CS Unplugged in New Zealand
I was lucky enough to spend a day last week at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand with Tim Bell and his CS Unplugged team. We had quite a long discussion on computer science, pedagogy, and curricula. The Unplugged team is...
UNESCO YouthMobile Event in Doha
On March 7, 2017, I was invited to speak to students and teachers at the UNESCO YouthMobile event in Doha Qatar. YouthMobile was part of TumuhaTECs Digital Youth Festival at QITCOM 2017, Qatars biggest digital...
App Inventor and Makers (1): Smart Bathtub
This is the latest blog post from MIT Master Trainer Xiangqun (Juliet) Chen. Check out 9th grade students who make a smart bathtub with MIT App Inventor and Arduino.
Becoming a Middle School Computer Programming Teacher
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Sarah Blanchette.
App Inventor Mentioned in Batgirl Comics
Image from Batgirl (2016-) #8 Son of...
Verizon Innovative Learning App Challenge Winners Announced
The Best in Nation winners of the Verizon Innovative Learning App Challenge where just announced. Eight teams from around the country were awarded $15,000 by Verizon Innovative Learning, in addition to the $5000 they were awarded as one of 100 Best in State teams....
Working with the ITunes API
This is a guest blog by MIT graduate and former MIT App Inventor team member Aubrey Colter In May 2015, I went to Oakland, CA, to teach an App Inventor workshop to a group of students at Youth Radio. I wanted to teach...
EU Code Week 2016 and MIT App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Rosanna Kurrer
EU Code Week (http://codeweek.eu/) is a grassroots movement which started in 2012 and is supported by the European Commission, and has since spread to over 50 countries around the world. The European...
Challenges and tips for teaching a large coding class
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Anqi Zhou.
During summer 2016, I had the opportunity to teach App Inventor to classes of 30 beginners aged 10 - 12 in Beijing. It was exciting to bring the power of coding to...
Technovation 2017 Workshop at MIT
My Experience at the App Inventor Summit
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Yen Yen Lim
Teaching Maths App Project
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Carly Lam.
Maths Survival Game Project involves creating a mobile game with MIT App Inventor that upon starting, will prompt maths questions to pop up on the screen, which the player will have...
New Release (nb154) coming next Friday
This coming Friday, January 27th, we will be releasing version nb154 of MIT App Inventor.
This is a component release, which means that it updates the component software used on devices by MIT App Inventor developed applications. Most of the changes are bugfixes or updates needed to...
Photo analysis with Microsoft Cognitive Services, using Makeblock CamVision extension
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer David Tseng of CAVEDU Education.
This is a simple project combining App Inventor and Microsoft Cognitive Services :Computer Vision API. The app can upload a picture to Microsoft Cognitive Services :Computer Vision...
App Inventor and IoTs
Opportunity
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Sue Maddock.
Spanish Teachers Learn App Inventor to Teach Computational Thinking
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Jose Luis Nez
Last Friday, we ran an Android App Development workshop using MIT App Inventor with students of the Master de Profesorado de Enseñanza Secundaria at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain....
New "I Love My Smartphone Curriculum" Released
2016 Shenzhen student App Inventor Contest
This is a guest blog by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Xiangqun Chen.
The 2nd Shenzhen Student Maker Festival was held at mid-October. The...
Show & Tell: Introducing App Inventor
MIT Master Trainer at Texas Charter School Association Conference
Suzan Dalgic MIT Master Trainer from Harmony Public Schools had a great session of Mobile Education - MIT App Inventor at Texas Charter School Association Conference on October 12, 2016 in Austin, TX. She introduced MIT App Inventor to the other Texas charter...
An easy way to add a bar graph to your app in App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Clark Hochgraf
You can create a simple bar graph in App Inventor using a button and a vertical arrangement. In the image below, the blue bar is a button whose height percent is set...
Computational Thinking Concepts with App Inventor for Primary School Children
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Carly Lam
CS One Academy offers programs to familiarise primary school children with computer science and programming. Technology and computers is already woven so deeply and intricately into our society, there is no doubt...
Google Translate API and App Inventor: An Alternative to Yandex
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Yvon Morin
Nowadays, the number of connected devices available through the Internet has led to connected people. The infrastructure that supports all the communications between devices is also known as the Internet of Things(IoT)....
MOSTEC Inventors Showcase Summer Apps
MOSTEC, the MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community program, allows rising high school seniors the opportunity for academic study in several areas of STEM during the summer, followed by several months of enrichment activities during the fall of their senior year.
Students choose to focus in...
WeTeach_CS Summit
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Krishnendu Roy
The Center for STEM Education at The University of Texas at Austin hosted the first WeTeach_CS Summit during June 7-9, 2016 (http://www.thetrc.org/cs-summit-2016/). In this K12 teachers workshop around 280 K12 teachers...
Experiments with Virtual Reality and MIT App Inventor
Synchronizing Time With App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Rich Interdonato
Synchronizing time across mobile devices is a very challenging problem for app makers. The moment you try to use App Inventor to make something happen on more than one device at exactly...
Feel the Math with App Inventor
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Angie Zhou
For a lot of young students, learning mathematics means rules to memorize and word problems that exist on paper. But as adults, we know having a sophisticated understanding of mathematical concepts will...
Welcome Mike Tissenbaum and Evan Patton to the MIT App Inventor team
Heart Rate Monitor with Arduino/Genuino 101
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Jose Luis Nez
Nowadays, the number of connected devices available through the Internet has led to connected people. The infrastructure that supports all the communications between devices is also known as the Internet of...
App Inventors debt to Seymour Papert
MIT App Inventor and Youth Radio to launch the Youth News Network STEM desk
Im exhilarated to announce that MIT App Inventor and Youth Radio (https://youthradio.org/) are beginning a 3-year initiative to launch the STEM Desk for Youth News Network (YNN). YNN will be a new nationwide model for STEM education based on youth-driven, multimedia journalism and related app development with App Inventor....
AITech - Using Procedures and Any component blocks
This is a guest blog by MIT Master Trainer Sjaak Bosman
When components in your app have similar behavior, you can end up with a lot of blocks almost doing the same thing. Using Procedures and Any component blocks not only gives you...
Pedometer Component Simplifies Accelerometer Sensor Data
This is a guest blog post by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Rich Interdonato.
An online App Inventor course is now being offered by the Department of Health Promotion and Education at the University of Utah....
2016 Google CS4HS Shenzhen
This is a guest blog by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Xiangqun Chen.
My three-day CS4HS workshop was held in June. More than 40 teachers came to have the training. Most of them are novices on App Inventor.
Two weeks before the workshop,...
New Release Features Extensions, Bluetooth LE & LEGO EV3
This release enables extension components, which for now are non-visible components only, which may be written by...
New App Inventor for Educators Site Launched
In an effort build a productive and positive educational community around the use of MIT App Inventor, a new website has now launched. teach.appinventor.mit.edu is a site where educators can share ideas, search and post resources, and ask questions about App Inventor....
Guangzhou Education Information Center(GEIC) Stages App Inventor Robot Contest
This is a guest blog by Zanjian Li, from the GuangZhou Education Information Center
On May 8th, the Robot Competition for Primary school and Secondary School Students of Guangzhou 2016 was successfully held by the Guangzhou Education Information Center (GEIC). 305 teams from 166 schools participated in the competition....
Integrating MIT App Inventor into Hoa Sen University IT Curriculum
This is a guest blog post by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Khoi Nguyen Tran Minh, a lecturer at Hoa Sen University, Vietnam
It is good news that after attending the MIT Master Trainers Program in Educational Mobile Computing, I am able...
The Science Temple
This is a guest blog by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Xiangqun Chen.
Every year we have two Disciplines Festivals; the autumn term is Art Festival, the spring term is Science Festival. So this term is Science Festival. The junior and senior parts...
Celebrating International Girls in ICT day in Europe
This is a guest blog by MIT App Inventor Master Trainer Rosanna Kurrer.
There is a growing awareness that increasing diversity and inclusion in the tech industry is indispensable...
Massachusetts Technovation Pitch Night a Great Success
Massachusetts Technovation Pitch Night took place on Wednesday, May 4, at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. MassTLC worked with Technovation to organize and run the event.
Thirty-nine teams of girls from across the state presented their app and business plans...
MIT App Inventor and Hong Kong Jockey Club Announce Joint Project
Hundreds Try App Inventor at MIT Open House
Over 40,000 people flocked to Cambridge on Saturday, April 23 to check out the MIT Under the Dome Open House event. Attendees were able to view over 380 exhibits around campus involving 80 different departments. The MIT App Inventor...
The Tech Girls of Dharavi Slum, Mahim, Mumbai, India
My name is Anu. I was born in Nayanagar, Dharavi slum neighborhood, Mahim, Mumbai. I am the first generation from my family to go to school. I lost my father in 2013 in a road accident when I...
A Great Initiative to Teach App inventor in Bangla By Niloy Shuvo
SHIKKHOK.COM, a well known platform for teaching in the Bengali language, won a 2013 Google Rise Award, 2013 The Bobs user award, ISIF Award and so on. SHIKKHOK means Teacher in English. For 3 years...
App Inventor part of Science on Saturday at MIT
The MIT EECS department presented Science on Saturday, Circuits and Computers edition, at the Kresge Auditorium in conjunction with the MIT Museum on Saturday, April 2. Over 1000 people attended the event, which featured on-stage demos by various EECS faculty and staff on electricity, energy, motion and App Inventor. After...
App Inventor Clicker App Makes a Difference in the Classroom
All photos courtesy of Salim Al-Harthi
I had to make quite big changes to the way in which I presented my course, and...
BusBudE Secure Travel Notification System
Every problem has its solution. You just have to be creative enough to find it.
Travis Kalanick - Co-founder of Uber
Welcome 30 New Master Trainers in Mobile Educational Computing
We had an spectacular experience this past week we had 30 people, from 18 countries, come together to be trained as MIT Master Trainers in Mobile Educational Computing (with MIT App Inventor), put together jointly with the MIT Professional Education Short Programs group.
Together with the amazing folks...
Seeking Applicants for Positions on App Inventor Team
As part of a major initiative we'll be undertaking with collaborators from Hong Kong and sponsored by the generosity of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the MIT App Inventor team is seeking applicants for three new staff positions.
Though this post is mostly an update to Hal's...
Major computational thinking research project and new MIT staff positions
Altona Middle School Team Builds Diction Defender App
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting the Altona Middle School team from Longmont, Colorado, who is one of the eight Best in Nation Verizon App Challenge winners. They were beginning their App Inventor training to learn the skills necessary to develop...
New Release Coming (nb147)
We will be deploying a new release of MIT App Inventor on Thursday afternoon on February 18th (2016-02-19 02:00:00 UTC). The details are in the Release Notes (DRAFT).
This release adds new Components and Features to MIT App Inventor and we will be deploying a...
App Inventor program in Germany receives 250.000 from Google.org
App Camps is a German non-profit that uses the MIT App Inventor to teach coding and app development in schools. Out of thousands of projects, the non-profit was selected as...
Verizon App Challenge Best in Nation Winners Announced
Two App Inventor tablets for under $100
I recently tested App Inventor with two low-priced tablets, the Kindle Fire 7" and the HP 7 G2. Both of these work fine with App Inventor. They could be reasonable choices for school or personal use, provided you have WiFi don't need phone calls or cellular connections. Here are instructions...
MIT App Inventor Translated to Brazilian Portuguese
This is a guest post by Eduardo Valle
Eu sou professor de Engenharia de Computao na UNICAMP, uma das principais universidades brasileiras. Meus colegas e eu estamos trabalhando para tornar mais diverso o pblico interessado nas profisses de Cincia, Tecnologia,...
Google App Inventor Competition in China a Huge Success
This is a guest blog post by Kathy Deng, Google China
We just wrapped up the 2015 App Inventor contest for high school and middle school students in China contest website in Chinese, which rolled out in June. This is...
US FIRST Robotics Uses App Inventor to Design Robot Controllers
FIRST is a non-profit organization, founded by inventor Dean Kamen, with a mission to inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology. FIRST engages children with exciting, Mentor-based programs that build...
Students Win App Competition in Hong Kong with App Inventor
Chiu Wai Hang, Chan Pak Long and Ho Kai Yui from Pak Kau College in Hong Kong were recent winners of...
Russian Language App Inventor Education Site Launched
Mobile Apps Academy web site - http://appinvent.ru was launched in Russia in December, 2015. The site is intended for Russian speaking school teachers who plan to teach development of Android apps with MIT App Inventor.
App of the Month winner also wins Google India Code To Learn contest!
App Inventor Team Watches CodeGirl
Mexican Students Win Top Spot in National Science Fair with App Inventor
Two female Mexican students, Roxana Galilea and Reyna Guadalupe, won first place in a national science fair (Expo Ciencia Nacional 15) using App Inventor. Their prototype app, Digi Voz Sistem, can recognize voice commands and transmit them through Bluetooth to an Arduino microprocessor to open doors, turn lights on and...
iVolunteer for Chennai
Indian Youth Builds App to Mobilize Resources for Disaster Relief
When deadly floods hit the Indian city of Chennai (Madras) in early December 2015, the award winning app inventor, Arjun Kumar put on his inventors hat once again, to build his newest app, iVolunteer for...
Superior Deca Squad Participates in FIRST Lego League
Last week I had the privilege of meeting, via Skype, the members of the Superior Deca Squad from Herndon, VA. They were preparing to present their project at the Virginia State Meet of FIRST (for the Inspiration and Recognition...
YouTuber Tutorials! - Week of December 7, 2015
Introduction to MIT App Inventor 2
If you are completely new to MIT...
Hong Kong City University Apps Lab
The mission of City University Apps Lab (CAL) is to promote coding education in Hong Kong. Started in 2013 by Dr. Ray Cheung, Associate Professor in Electronic Engineering, CAL seeks to expose...
YouTuber Tutorials! - Week of November 16, 2015
YouTuber Tutorials! - Week of November 9, 2015
Barcode Scanner
For our Spanish-speaking audience, we have a YouTube channel that teaches its lessons entirely in Spanish....
NSF Award to Team from Boise State to Research with App Inventor
YouTuber Tutorials - Week of October 26, 2015
YouTuber Tutorials This Week!
List Randomizer, Item Deletion, and Reloading Tutorial
If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts,...
Making the Hilltop Sunset App Part 3: Linking Websites and Changing Colors
Reactions to a CS10k Webinar: Block Party
The MIT Master Trainers Program
The MIT App Inventor team is excited to announce the inaugural MIT Master Trainers Program in Educational Mobile Computing.
Making the Hilltop Sunset App Part 2: Problem Solving and Creating a Song List
UNESCO YouthMobile
The UNESCO YouthMobile Initiative has launched the 1st of a series of training workshops of young students in mobile apps programming in Abuja, Nigeria. The training program was based on the beginner and intermediate levels of the App Inventor curriculum from the...
UNESCO Youth Forum
UNESCO Youth Forum MIT App Inventor will be participating in the UNESCO Youth Forum Youth for Change conference in Paris, France, October 26-28, 2015. As the Manager of Educational Outreach and Business...
Youth Radio
Are you up to date on whats happening with Youth Radio in Oakland, California? Heres a quick run down.
Upcoming App Contests
Are you a budding mobile app developer who has made apps for family and friends, but is now looking to reach a wider audience? wants to get feedback from users around the globe? is wondering what it takes to have a successful or best selling app?
Making the Hilltop Sunset App Part 1: Wheel-O-Songs, a List Randomizer
Today I built my very own original app on MIT App Inventor.
Im not a computer scientist, Im not an expert programmer, and Ive never taken any classes on the subject; Im just a singer/songwriter with a degree in English and Creative Writing--and a dream. But even with literally zero...
My First Impression of App Inventor
Have you ever caught yourself thinking “I wish there was an app for that”? Maybe you wished there was a one-click rimshot on your phone to punctuate your bad jokes, or perhaps you’ve always wanted an interactive grocery list that knows all your favorite foods so you don’t have to...
Exciting News from Boise State University
MOSTEC
App Inventor Extension Components available for testing
The MIT App Inventor team is delighted to announce the availability of Extension Components for testing. We hope the Extension Components will prove to be a major enhancement to App Inventor: Extensions provide a way for anyone to build their own App Inventor components, which others can then use in...
French Translation
Due to the hard work and dedication of Adel Kassah, a middle school computer science teacher in Tunisia, the App Inventor platform is now translated into French!
App Inventor in Russian!
MIT App Inventor has been used in Russia for several years by teaching enthusiasts, who find it an excellent transition tool from Scratch to more complicated Android apps. But, the lack of a Russian interface was a stumbling block for a long time. Finally this obstacle has been removed!
MIT App Inventor Classic RIP (Jan. 2012 - Jul. 2015)
MIT App Inventor Classic RIP (Jan. 2012 - Jul. 2015)
Today we’re shutting down MIT App Inventor Classic. It’s been a great run. Even here at the end, the system is hosting 3000 active users a week. That’s down from 6500 in May, and vastly down from the peak...
MIT App Inventor visits China, June 2015
The MIT App Inventor team of Wei Li (graduate student) Andrew McKinney (Director of Software Development), and I, Felicia Kamriani (Manager of Educational Outreach & Business Development), voyaged to China for 3 weeks to meet with government officials, university professors, and business leaders to discuss ways of incorporating App Inventor in the Chinese educational systems.
Guangzhou conference on Mobile Learning and Computational Thinking based on App Inventor, June 13-15
Mobile CSP Team Holds App Inventor Workshop at ISTE 2015
College Board Announces Endorsement of Advanced Placement Mobile CSP Course
MIT App Inventor Classic to MIT App Inventor 2 Converter Released
MIT App Inventor usage triples over the 2014-2015 academic year
App Inventor Classic to Shut Down on July 15
MIT Students create UMATI
NEW: Sharing and Remixing directly from MIT App Inventors Integrated Gallery!
The App Inventor team is happy to announce a new feature designed to encourage sharing and exploration of projects and the code behind them. App Inventor now has an integrated gallery for sharing your apps and exploring the code of others apps! From within App Inventor,...
App Inventor at the White House
Scholarly Research with or about MIT App Inventor
In addition to being a great app creation and computational thinking learning environment, MIT App Inventor is the hub of a broad network of scholarly research.
The team at MIT is happy to collaborate with a wide range of other researchers who either use MIT App Inventor as a platform...
New Version of the MIT App Inventor 2 Setup Tools for Macintosh
This new version adds additional flexibility, and fixes several issues that users have reported, and is now the standard MIT App Inventor 2 Mac Tools Installer....
App Inventor usage summary for 2014
App Inventor honored with 2015 MERLOT Classics Award
2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge National Winners
New Version of the MIT App Inventor 2 Setup Tools for Windows
This new version adds additional flexibility, and fixes several issues that users have reported, and is now the standard MIT App Inventor 2 Windows Tools Installer....
Verizon Innovative App Challenge announces 2015 Best In State Winners
Congratulations to our collaborators from the Verizon Foundation and the Technology Student Association, and especially to the just announced Best In State winners of the 2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge.
We're excited to learn about the great ideas coming from these winners, and look forward to sending out our...
MIT App Inventor - "A Language the Pays"
Thanks to Jeff Cogswell and the folks at dice.com for the nice mention of MIT App Inventor as a tool worth knowing about for building Android apps!
Thanks too, to the slashdotter who put the word out further.
MIT App Inventor - now available with Chinese or Spanish Interface - More Languages to Come
Though some of you may have noticed late in 2014, we're now making the official announcement. MIT App Inventor has been used in many countries (more than 195 at last count) for some time, but now the interface for the programming environment, found at http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/, is now available in...
Errors and Debugging of Blocks-Based Programming in App Inventor - a SuperUROP Project
Hi App Inventor World! Im Benji, a Super UROP on the MIT App Inventor team. Although I do have superpowers (shhh), Super UROP is an MIT program for advanced undergraduates at the Institute to do long-term, intensive research. My research interests lie at the intersection of data science...
OSU Student Reinvents The Wheel (And Uses MIT App Inventor to Control It)
Welcome Felicia Kamriani to the MIT App Inventor Team!
China National App Inventor Contest holds final round
On November 22, the 2014 China National App Inventor Contest for High/Middle School Students, which kicked off last June, held its final round competition at the Google office in Shanghai.
Here is a report by Kathy Deng of Google University Relations Education, China:
Dear All,
The creation of live programming in App Inventor
MIT/Google China Summer Workshops reach teachers from 198 schools
App Inventor teacher workshops in South China
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
July, 2014
I’m writing from an App Inventor workshop at the Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology,Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology (SZIIT), one of China’s top technical schools, where we’re running a three-day App Inventor workshop for 40 middle school and high school teachers. “We” are MIT...
Teaching App Creation Self-Study Course Open to Public
Share Your Stories!
MIT App Inventor Well Represented @ ISTE 2014
Last week, Los Angles Unified School District teacher Steve Zanotti and Wellesley University Professor Lyn Turback conducted a hands-on workshop at International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference in Atlanta. The group of approximately forty secondary teachers heard from Steve how he has been using...
Job position with MIT App Inventor
Job Code/Title: ED001/Research SpecialistPosition
Title: Software Engineer
Effort: 100%
Term: Initial term through June 2015 with the possibility of extension based on progress and direction of the research
Summary: The MIT Center for the Mobile Learning, a joint project of the MIT Media Lab and the Computer...
2014 Technovation Challenge reaches 3500 young women
From February to May of 2014, 3,500 young women from ages 10 to 23 spanning 45 countries around the globe signed up to create mobile apps to solve problems in their communities. They built prototypes using MIT App Inventor, wrote business plans, and pitched their mobile...
Join us at the 2014 MIT App Inventor Summit!
Join us at MIT for the third annual App Inventor Summit to be held July 17 & 18, 2014. The MIT App Inventor Summit is the annual gathering of the world-wide App Inventor community. Hosted by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning and the MIT...
Creating Challenge-Worthy Apps
Want to create challenge-worthy apps? Want to participate in the House Student App Challenge but don’t know where to start?
MIT App Inventor’s Guide to Creating Challenge-Worthy Apps! A virtual live webinar (recorded LIVE on April 7, 2014, now available for viewing)
MIT’s App...
Shay Pokress to join Project Lead the Way
One Computer At a Time
Time to Update the Companion
First Lady Celebrates 2013 Winners of Technovation Challenge in Nigeria
Hungry Middle Schoolers Create Prize-Winning Allergy App
Time to Install New Setup Tools!
Announcing the Bug finding contest winners
H***app***y New Year
Christmas Gift: Merry Christmas and H*app*y Holidays
Here's a Christmas present to the App Inventor community, from MIT App Inventor team members Fu-Ming Shi and Wehua Li. Christmas Yo Yo Fun is an App Inventor creation that you can download for free from the Google Play store. It lets anyone create Christmas cards by...
The New App Inventor is Coming: Hunt bugs in App Inventor 2 and win prizes!
Upgrading Java for AI1 Mac users on Mavericks
Hour of Code with App Inventor
In preparation for the first Hour of Code TM we developed new tutorials in the form of short, user-friendly videos that anyone can follow to build their first mobile apps. The Hour of Code is nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week and...
URBAN Txt Students Using App Inventor
The URBAN TxT (urban Teens eXploring Technology) program seeks inner-city south L.A. students from 7th to 11th grade with an interest in technology and exploring more about. Many of these kids have parents who didn't attend college or even graduate high school. The URBAN TxT program has been incredibly successful....
App Inventor Boot Camp in Western Mass
Want to Contribute to App Inventor’s Educational Resources?
We'd love to share your tutorials or other resources with the App Inventor community. To get started creating your own tutorials, check out the How To Create Your Own Tutorial page. If you'd like to create a Concept Card, use our Concept Card template. For these and...
Chicago Summer of Learning features App Inventor
This summer of 2013, thousands of young Chicagoans will continue learning while school is out, thanks to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuels citywide Chicago Summer of Learning initiative, the largest coordinated summer learning effort in the country. Summer of Learning will specifically focus learning activities around science, technology, engineering,...
Democratizing the mobile world with MIT App Inventor
Built with the mission to democratize app creation for and by all, MIT App Inventor is a graphical tool that turns media consumers into active and critical participants of the mobile world.
As portable devices become ubiquitous, mobile apps are the new Web. Literally bringing data and connectivity to...
App Inventor featured in CSTA Voice
Creative Engagement with Technology: There's an App for That!
I recently teamed up with CS teacher Kristin Violette to write an article for the July issue of CSTA Voice. In the article we chronicle how Kristin's students at Newtown High School in Connecticut have used...
$200K Keck Grant for Appinventor.org
Join the App Inventor Community Gallery!
The App Inventor Gallery is now open to the world at gallery.appinventor.mit.edu. Show off your apps. Find apps for remixing. Learn from others and collaborate! The gallery is an open-source app store, a collaborative development environment, and a peer-to-peer learning studio, all in one. Teachers, students,...
Computer Science Educators embrace App Inventor at SIGCSE
I am happy to report that the 44th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) was a wonderful success, and that App Inventor was well represented by educators...
Meet the MIT App Inventor Training Corps
Back Row, left to right: Arta Szathmary, Kelly Powers, Shaileen Pokress, Kristin Violette, Barbara Ericson; Front Row: Krishnendu Roy, Josh Sheldon, Mark Sherman, William Smith
This past Friday and Saturday, at the MIT Media Lab, I had...
MIT CML at Mobile World Congress
Preliminary Report from World Mobile Congress
Import Information about Java and App Inventor
First App Inventor Contest: Winners Announced!
App Inventor Goes Wireless!
NEW RELEASE brings sprite flinging, wifi texting, and more!
- Sprites and Canvas can now respond to Fling, TouchDown, and TouchUp gestures....
App Inventor Community Gallery from UMass-Lowell & USF Seeks More Beta Testers
New Release: Screen arrangements, resizable video, and more
- Resize-able and Full Screen Video support. You can now resize an existing Video Player component from the blocks editor. In Android...
App Inventor Summit Archive Now Available
Ed Week features App Inventor as tool for engaging students
Welcome to the new App Inventor website!
App Inventor helping to bridge gap in numbers of CS Majors
Hello Inventors, One of our main goals at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning is to encourage greater participation in computing from a wider and more varied assortment of people. App Inventor does this by inherently fostering personal creativity with technology. I was pleased to see App Inventor mentioned in...
Please help up test the new site for sharing App Inventor projects
Ever since App Inventor was launched, there have been many requests for a site where people can exhibit and share their App Inventor work. MIT and University of Massachusetts at Lowell are collaborating on creating such a Gallery site, which we hope to launch later this year.
Right now, we...
Hog Wild for App Inventor!
Hello App Inventors, Things are moving right along here at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. The community continues to grow and we have now topped the 90,000 mark for the number unique accounts on the App Inventor service! We have several initiatives underway to bring you new materials and...
App Inventor Community continues to grow!
Hello App Inventor Educators! My name is Shaileen Pokress (“Shay”). I have just gotten started in my new position as Education Community Manager at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. I am working with the App Inventor Team to facilitate sharing of ideas and materials in support of using App...
Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview
The MIT Center for Mobile Learning is delighted to announce that we’re meeting our goal of making MIT App Inventor available as a public service in the first quarter of 2012.
For the past two months, we have been conducting a closed test of the system for an increasing number...
MIT App Inventor mid-January status update
It's been three months since we started work on App Inventor at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning and three weeks since Google's public service went offline. Here's brief progress report on the replacement public service we'll be deploying at MIT.
So far (knock on wood) our development effort is...
Google and MIT announce open sourcing of the App Inventor code
Google and MIT are pleased to announce the initial free and open-source release from Google of the App Inventor source code at http://code.google.com/p/app-inventor-releases/.
There's little supporting documentation yet, and we’re not accepting contributions to the code now. That will happen later, after the MIT Center of Mobile Learning opens...
Help test the MIT prototype App Inventor Service
The Center for Mobile Learning is planning to deploy a public App Inventor service some time in the first quarter of 2012, to replace the service that Google will be turning off at the end of December. We've just launched an experimental prototype, and we're looking for people to...
Running your own App Inventor service
Starting today, the Center for Mobile Learning is distributing Java Archive (JAR) files that let people run their own versions of App Inventor on Google App Engine.
We're still planning to deploy a public App Inventor service some time in the first quarter of 2012, to replace the service...
Development Starts at MIT
I’m happy to use this first post in our App Inventor Development Blog to announce that MIT work on App Inventor is underway, and even happier to introduce Andrew McKinney as our newly hired technical lead for the Center and for App Inventor development. Andrew has a 20-year history of...